Happy New Year!
You know, I check LJ just about every other day, but I sort of forget to post.
Anyway, Rachel enjoyed her second Christmas. She looooves the "lies" on the "tee." She's a big fan of "Sanna!" (except when we went to see him live for pictures. Then she hated him.)
We went to a party, an actual grown-up party, for NYE. Rachel stayed overnight at her daycare lady's house. Everyone had fun, but I think we're all still trying to get back to our normal schedule.
At the end of the month I'm going to a fancy wedding. My mom and I took two days to find me a dress- we estimated that I tried on at least 45 dresses before I found one that was both attractive and appropriate. Now I'm trying to decide which crash-diet technique to try so that I feel like I actually look nice in said dress. Thus far, I'm employing the "sit around and eat exactly as much as normal while complaining about how fat you are" method. We'll see how that goes.
In other news, work continues to be busy and stupid, but at least so far they haven't cut off access to LJ, so I'll be watching you, even if I do forget (or am too lazy) to update.
OH! I'm going to keep track of my 2010 books (I read a ton in 2009 but didn't keep track). I'm already off to a good start, with 2:
1) Blood Rites - this is a book in Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series. I really like Harry and his adventures.
2) Ballad - Mary Steifvater. I may have TOTALLY butchered that woman's name. The sequel to "Lament," this book is about the continuing adventures of some musical prodigies who run afoul of the fae. The structure of this book was very interesting- the heroine and main POV character of the first book, Diedre, is moved almost entirely off-stage, so that we only know what is happening to her from the other character's viewpoint and the content of text messages that she doesn't send. Unfortunately, Dee is so ridiculously self-absorbed and idiotic even in these small glimpses that she rivals Bella Swan as my most-hated fictional heroines ever.
Anyway, Rachel enjoyed her second Christmas. She looooves the "lies" on the "tee." She's a big fan of "Sanna!" (except when we went to see him live for pictures. Then she hated him.)
We went to a party, an actual grown-up party, for NYE. Rachel stayed overnight at her daycare lady's house. Everyone had fun, but I think we're all still trying to get back to our normal schedule.
At the end of the month I'm going to a fancy wedding. My mom and I took two days to find me a dress- we estimated that I tried on at least 45 dresses before I found one that was both attractive and appropriate. Now I'm trying to decide which crash-diet technique to try so that I feel like I actually look nice in said dress. Thus far, I'm employing the "sit around and eat exactly as much as normal while complaining about how fat you are" method. We'll see how that goes.
In other news, work continues to be busy and stupid, but at least so far they haven't cut off access to LJ, so I'll be watching you, even if I do forget (or am too lazy) to update.
OH! I'm going to keep track of my 2010 books (I read a ton in 2009 but didn't keep track). I'm already off to a good start, with 2:
1) Blood Rites - this is a book in Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series. I really like Harry and his adventures.
2) Ballad - Mary Steifvater. I may have TOTALLY butchered that woman's name. The sequel to "Lament," this book is about the continuing adventures of some musical prodigies who run afoul of the fae. The structure of this book was very interesting- the heroine and main POV character of the first book, Diedre, is moved almost entirely off-stage, so that we only know what is happening to her from the other character's viewpoint and the content of text messages that she doesn't send. Unfortunately, Dee is so ridiculously self-absorbed and idiotic even in these small glimpses that she rivals Bella Swan as my most-hated fictional heroines ever.